Damon Galgut has been a prolific contributor to South African literature since the early 1980s, but
has only recently gained recognition as a significant presence in our cultural landscape. This thesis
considers what the ...

The primary aim of this dissertation is to trace the ways in which Yvonne Vera’s final
two novels, Butterfly Burning and The Stone Virgins, provide a discursive space for the
enunciation of subaltern histories, which ...